GHADA JAMSHIR

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'Ghada Jamshir' is a Bahraini women's rights activist. She is a Muslim reformer and an ardent campaigner against the child molestation that is practiced in some Gulf states.
Jamshir heads the Women's Petition Committee lobbying for a law that would shift jurisdiction over family and women's affairs from Islamic Sharia court to civil courts.
She has been charged with publicly defaming the Islamic judiciary court but the charge was dropped.
She has been described on the Western blog Resistance ^[1],
Jamshir has called the Al Khalifa government's reforms "artificial and marginal". In a statement in December 2006 she said,
Jamshir has been outspoken in criticizing the Bahraini government for its role in the Bandargate scandal. In 2007 she alleged that the Interior Ministry was attempting to spy on her^[2]

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1. Bahrain: Feminist Condemns Islamic Courts, Western Resistance, 29 December 2005
2. Worrying Allegations over Government Attempts to Spy on Prominent Women's Rights Activist, Bahrain Center for Human Rights, 17 March 2007

See also

★ Human rights in Bahrain

★ Women's political rights in Bahrain

External links

★ Women's Petition Committee: Appointment of Sharia Judges as political gifts for religious groups

★ Ghada Jamshir interview

★ Article on Ghada Jamshir

★ transcript of interview with Ghada Jamshir

★ Bahrain court drops defamation charge against Ghada Jamshir

★ Bahraini women demand unified civil status law